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Ex-Farmer Ends 7th Global Voyage Aboard Yankee
Gloucester and Reed Whitney of Wilmette report Captain Irving Johnson, 83, finishing his seventh global voyage aboard the brigantine Yankee with 21 paying passengers. The 18 month, 49000 mile trip included an anchor from the Bounty found near Pitcairn Island and a Cape Town engagement party for Dr N Alice Strahan who will marry Christopher Sheldon May 24. Johnson plans four more years cruising in Europe in a new 48 foot ketch.
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Gloucester
Mass
Reed Whitney
Wilmette
Irving Johnson
Navy
South Hadley
Bounty
Pitcairn Island
Johnson
Shangri-La
N. Alice Strahan
Maplewood
N. J
Christopher Sheldon
South Norwalk
Conn
Capetown
South Africa
Sheldon
Cant
South Sea Islands
Marquesas Islands
Bay of Virgin
Hebrides
New Guinea